Editing Strong City, Kansas (section)

===Stone industry===
Local stonemasons and builders ''Barney Lantry & Son'' contracted with railroad companies for projects throughout the United States.<ref name="nrhp-depot"/>  In the beginning it built stone-work for certain phases of railroad construction, but later they did build complete railroads, grading, laying the track, building bridges, stations, roundhouses, and other division buildings.<ref name="strong-history">[http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/StrongCity/history.html Strong City History.]</ref>

The first stone-crushers Kansas ever saw were brought to the state by the Lantrys and were operated on a very large scale at Strong City.  Most of the stone for masonry and road-ballast for their jobs all over the west, was taken from their quarries at Strong City. Big stones for the [[Kansas State Capitol]] came from Strong City, each stone weighing 13,000 pounds.  Stone was also used for public and private buildings in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and Colorado.<ref name="strong-history"/>

When Barney Lantry died in 1895, officials of the Santa Fe Railroad from Los Angeles to Chicago attended his funeral services in Strong City.<ref name="nrhp-depot"/>